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  1. Re:Oh boo-hoo! on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure it's their legal right. It's just that sites like Facebook and Reddit are the new town square. You know, the place the 1st Amendment said - between the lines - you could go to say what you wanted.

    Censorship got outsourced to the companies.

  2. Re:What? on This Machine Kills Captchas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Find the last real zero of this polynomial.

    What.

  3. Re:What? on This Machine Kills Captchas (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
  4. Re:I think you have the terms confused. on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    In what world do people not die when they are murdered?

  5. AND here comes the lobby on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The big ISPs will sue SF into the ground to stop this from happening, just like they do to anyone else that tries it.

  6. Re:See below on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not even sure it's deemed homosexuality to be bad, but perhaps "Deviating from the average of averages" as bad.

  7. Re:See below on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No one said that ONLY 'gay' and 'jew' had been unbalanced. They are, however, often thrown around as derogatory slurs - far more so than, say, hindu. No one is surprised if 'n!gger' (really, Slashdot? One instance of that and I hit the lameness filter?) or 'paki' carry a negative bias, because it's hard to use those in a positive way.

    It's also a common trope on game forums to point out that only the unhappy players ever post, because something has riled them up enough that they need to vent and want it fixed. No one takes time out to post a lengthy letter of praise to the developers; the happy players just play. So it is with comments about minorities - only the ones who dislike $minority tend to post a lot, and then of course the politically correct out to Save The World. They usually end up in heated discussions anyway, though, so anyone defending the jews will have their posts show up in, yes, a negative thread.

  8. Or even in concentrations coming close to the exhaust of a few cars, which we happily walk past without thinking about it.

  9. Soap, shampoo, tooth paste, breath mint, detergent, deodorant, cologne, car freshener ... The list of personally chosen smells goes on.

  10. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I was in the hospital for eye surgery, so I assure you, I don't have 20/20 vision either. The tablet, however, suited my needs although I'll admit to missing a proper keyboard. I type WAY too slow on an onscreen keyboard.

  11. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    How did you first hear about pornhub? On a site that eight year olds usually frequent?

  12. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    1) No, but it gets a lot harder to find it without searching for it. Just like all things.
    2) Fewer targeted attacks against tablet OSes due to smaller market segment compared to Windows.
    3) You sound like you know what you're talking about. Care to elaborate? Do porn sites not even have the bit about promising you're over 13 years old? Maybe the quick "Enter your birth date" page? Is is just hardcore porn on the index.htm page?

  13. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I was in the hospital for a week recently. My Galaxy 4 Tab kept me sane, thanks both to chat programs to connect with my friends, as well as both a gaming platform (Candy Crush etc.) and movie player.

    What, was I supposed to use my even smaller phone screen for all that? WHY?

  14. Re:Does nobody RTFS? on Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    There's already been two above your comment.

  15. This wouldn't be aimed at professionals. Do you think the average computer user would realize that the computer could be salvaged in such a way, or would they panic and pay the ransom rather than having to buy an all new computer?

  16. Re: Anytime on A 14-Year-Old Asks: When Should I Get a VPN? · · Score: 1

    What did she say to that, though?

    If she did anything other than have him send her the money so she could 'buy it herself', she's stupid. ;-)

  17. First exploit will take that feature, lock out USER from doing anything, and pop up a ransomware screen.

  18. But how many do you actually need? And how many of them do you actually need while on the move, rather than sitting at your desk?

  19. Re: Requirements first. on A 14-Year-Old Asks: When Should I Get a VPN? · · Score: 2

    Would you say the same about sex? Smoking? Drugs? Investing?

    Substituting 'VPN' for any of these makes the question very interesting.

  20. Re:As with most things... on Data Science Meets Sports Gambling: How Researchers Beat the Bookies (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they could adapt?

    I mean, these researchers have proven one thing: That the bookmaker algorithms are close to, but not entirely perfect. The bookmakers need to update their algorithms, put out odds that once again leave them winning the long run, and still allowing the gamblers to have a lucky score now and then.

    Closing down accounts, banning people etc. ... Isn't that the exact same thing as the RIAA screaming and yelling and suing grandmothers instead of getting with the times and creating an online music service?

  21. Re:Trampling Civil Rights on Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you do that BEFORE or AFTER a court of law has found out if he ACTUALLY did the crime?

  22. Re: Well, not *all* whales on Peer Pressure Forced Whales and Dolphins To Evolve Big Brains Like Humans, Says Study (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Multiple Kara Thraces. It's how she could be both dead on Earth and still alive on Galactica.

  23. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN -1 FLAMEBAIT on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your reading comprehension is failing. What the OP implies is that people taking offense ON BEHALF OF OTHERS should be ostracized. These are the people that keep us from making tongue-in-cheek jokes, that keep us from calling people-of-a-non-white-skin-color black, and who generally live and breathe their own outrage, because only by trying to make the world PERFECT can they find meaning in their own pathetic little lives.

    They are the ones who always know best, who will run from crusade to crusade to prove how great and noble they are, and they are a cancer upon the world.

    People with eating disorders? I pity them and hope they get the help they need.

  24. Re:There's no escaping it on Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe snoring is so common that the makers of this aid just did as they did in the old days - they sent the ad to everyone?

    Not ALL ads are completely tailor-made to each individual user.

  25. Re:Get rekt cheaters on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Blocks 322,000 Cheaters (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    So PUBG adds clause 13.37: If the SOFTWARE detects the USER to be using unauthorized third-party software unaffiliated with (skipping to the good part) ... we reserve the right to dynamically influence the variables affecting the USER's game experience to counteract the effects of the unauthorized third-party software.